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The 15 Sep 1917 Motion Picture News announced that Douglas Fairbanks and his company were due in New York City that week to film several scenes. Afterward, they were scheduled to return to Universal City, CA, to complete the picture.Douglas Fairbanks starred in a 1931 United Artists release also entitled Reaching for the Moon , which was not based on this 1917 ...
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The 15 Sep 1917 Motion Picture News announced that Douglas Fairbanks and his company were due in New York City that week to film several scenes. Afterward, they were scheduled to return to Universal City, CA, to complete the picture.Douglas Fairbanks starred in a 1931 United Artists release also entitled Reaching for the Moon , which was not based on this 1917 film.
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Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown entertains delusions of grandeur although he is only a lowly clerk in a New York button factory. Completely discouraged, he takes up a philosophy that claims that one may attain any object in life by concentrating one's mind on it, but he loses his job while trying to practice the philosophy on his boss. Encouraged by the fact that his late mother came from the kingdom of Vulgaria, Alexis concentrates on the subject of becoming a royal personage and falls asleep. Soon after, the minister of Vulgaria appears and states that the king is dead and Alexis must take the throne. Alexis accepts and travels to Vulgaria where he is kept busy dodging attempts made on his life by Black Boris, a pretender to the throne. While dueling for his life after insulting the homely Princess Valentina, his betrothed, Alexis falls over a cliff and awakens to discover that he has merely tumbled out of bed. Thus disabused of his fantasies, Alexis eagerly returns to his life in the button factory, proposes to Elsie Merrill, his down-to-earth sweetheart, and eventually finds happiness as a family man in a New Jersey ...
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Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown entertains delusions of grandeur although he is only a lowly clerk in a New York button factory. Completely discouraged, he takes up a philosophy that claims that one may attain any object in life by concentrating one's mind on it, but he loses his job while trying to practice the philosophy on his boss. Encouraged by the fact that his late mother came from the kingdom of Vulgaria, Alexis concentrates on the subject of becoming a royal personage and falls asleep. Soon after, the minister of Vulgaria appears and states that the king is dead and Alexis must take the throne. Alexis accepts and travels to Vulgaria where he is kept busy dodging attempts made on his life by Black Boris, a pretender to the throne. While dueling for his life after insulting the homely Princess Valentina, his betrothed, Alexis falls over a cliff and awakens to discover that he has merely tumbled out of bed. Thus disabused of his fantasies, Alexis eagerly returns to his life in the button factory, proposes to Elsie Merrill, his down-to-earth sweetheart, and eventually finds happiness as a family man in a New Jersey suburb.
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Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies in his palatial Florida home, Xanadu, after uttering the single word “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane ... >>

The American Film Institute is grateful to Sir Paul Getty KBE and the Sir Paul Getty KBE Estate for their dedication to the art of the moving image and their support for the
AFI Catalog of Feature Films and without whose support AFI would not have been able to achieve this historical landmark in this epic scholarly endeavor.